Associations to the word «Parlous»

Wiktionary

PARLOUS, adjective. Attended with peril; dangerous; risky.
PARLOUS, adjective. Dire, terrible, appalling.
PARLOUS, adjective. (obsolete) Dangerously clever or cunning.
PARLOUS, adverb. (archaic) Very, extremely.

Dictionary definition

PARLOUS, adjective. Fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery".

Wise words

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.